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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. The firms have made inroads into ancillary services such as diagnostic and urine-testing and software for managing billing and other aspects of medical practice.

Doctors 145
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Sick Profit: Investigating Private Equity’s Stealthy Takeover of Health Care Across Cities and Specialties

KHN

They argued the procedures were done needlessly, in keeping with a corporate strategy to maximize profits by overtreating kids from lower-income families enrolled in Medicaid. The firms have made inroads into ancillary services such as diagnostic and urine-testing and software for managing billing and other aspects of medical practice.

Doctors 52
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NASHP Model Act to Limit Out-of-Network Provider Rates

NASHP

1002(32), but excludes any coverage by Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, Veterans Administration, Indian Health Services, and the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan. The total payment, including amounts paid by the health benefit plan and individual cost-sharing, shall not exceed the amounts stated in subsection (2)(A). (C)